Carol McLernon will talk about her books at the Senior Center 504 W. Starin Rd. at 1p.m. on Thursday, June 26. She will be joined by Elkhorn author, Kay Pleuss Meyer who illustrated “Black Hawk: A Boy and his Vision”.

Meyer has always had a love for drawing and painting, becoming more serious after retiring from a nursing career. Many of her paintings have won awards in Wisconsin and Arizona. She and her husband, Kent, have two children and two grandsons.

McLernon’s newest book, “Journeys to the Land of Gray gold” tells of Native Americans, farmers, politicians, miners, entrepreneurs, and missionaries, Some of her ancestors left Yorkshire and established Methodist parishes in Dubuque, Iowa and other mining towns. She will relate what John Wesley had to say about Parishioners in Yorkshire and how churches began having their sanctuaries on the second stories.